Z Trim Holdings’ Smokin’ Powerhouse Chili recipe took first place in IFT’s inaugural “Making Healthy School Meals Easy” challenge in Las Vegas. Competitors were required to convert a recipe from the 2011 USDA Recipes for Healthy Kids competition into a manufactured product for widespread distribution and use in school cafeterias.

The legislative push to enable school cafeterias to keep serving pizza and French fries will not save nearly as much money as some law-makers have suggested—if any, according to the Agriculture Department.